iTune Gift Card Purchase

[LessO2]

Hope this is the right forum for this question.

I'm an American with an American iTunes account. Right now, I'm in Canada. If I purchase an iTunes gift card up here in Canada, would my account be credited at face value in American dollars or would it be credited in American after Canadian conversion?

 

[pdjudd]

As far as I know gift cards are regional and only valid in the country they are purchased in.

 

[lumencreative]

As far as I know gift cards are regional and only valid in the country they are purchased in.

This is my understanding too. I have a US iTunes account and live in the UK. I have to purchase US iTunes cards online if I want to credit my US iTunes account.

 

[jimthing]

Isn't this stupid. People move about all the time in this day and age, yet Apple accounts (and re-downloading your account content, I presume) are glued to the country they originate in.

Annoying-for-users backdoor DRM-esque control here by Apple, through their Apple ID system, instead of the previous in-file system they removed (at least for music).